Portsmouth City Council has prepared a new Local Plan to guide development in the City up to 2040. This response form allows you to provide your views on the Pre-Submission version of the Portsmouth Local Plan (the ‘Plan’) along with its Policies Map, Sustainability Appraisal and Habitat Regulations Assessment before it is submitted for examination to the Planning Inspectorate.

The consultation is open from 09 July 2024 to 23.59 on 03 September 2024.

Here is a link to the Portsmouth Local Plan Evidence, which includes the Local Plan and other supporting documents.

Please contact the Planning Policy team by email at policyconsultations@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or phone 07990138226 if you have any queries or require this form in an alternative format.

Privacy Notice

Portsmouth City Council is the data controller of any personal data you provide on this form. It will only be used for the purpose of preparing the Portsmouth Local Plan and will only be held for as long as necessary for this purpose. Your comments and your name will be published on the City Council's website. We will make every effort to remove other personal details including telephone numbers, postal and email addresses and signatures prior to being uploaded. All representations received at this Pre-Submission stage will be sent to the Secretary of State for consideration at the Public Examination undertaken by an independent Planning Inspector appointed by the Planning Inspectorate (PINS).

For full details of how the council collects and uses personal data, please see the full Data Protection Privacy Notice.

This survey uses software supplied by Evolutive. For full details of how Evolutive complies with the UK GDPR, please see their website and private notice (Evolutive Website).

How to complete this form

This form has three parts:

Part A Your Representation(s): fill in and submit a new response form for each representation you wish to make on a specific policy of the Pre-Submission Local Plan and its Policies Map, Sustainability Appraisal and Habitat Regulations Assessment.

This is a technical consultation that focuses solely on legal compliance, compliance with the Duty to Cooperate and soundness. In order for the Plan to be legally compliant it needs to meet all legal and procedural requirements. All local planning authorities, including Portsmouth City Council, are under a Duty to Cooperate with each other, and with other prescribed bodies, on strategic matters that cross administrative boundaries. The Government defines a Local Plan as sound if it is:

1. Positively prepared: providing a strategy which, as a minimum, seeks to meet the area’s objectively assessed needs; and is informed by agreements with other authorities, so that unmet need from neighbouring areas is accommodated where it is practical to do so and is consistent with achieving sustainable development; 2. Justified: an appropriate strategy, taking into account the reasonable alternatives, and based on proportionate evidence; 3. Effective: deliverable over the plan period, and based on effective joint working on cross-boundary strategic matters that have been dealt with rather than deferred, as evidenced by the statement of common ground; and 4. Consistent with national policy: enabling the delivery of sustainable development in accordance with the policies in this Framework and other statements of national planning policy, where relevant

Please outline which document and section of the document you are responding to. For ease of interpretation please be as descriptive as possible using the policy number, paragraph numbers and/or site names you are responding to and supporting evidence documents where relevant.

Please provide all the supporting information necessary to support your representation and your suggested modification(s). You should not assume that you will have a further opportunity to make submissions.

Part B Personal Details: need only be completed once by each person responding to the consultation. Please provide your name, postal address, email address and any other contact information. A name and postal address must be provided for the comments to be accepted. Anonymous or confidential representations without the required personal information cannot be accepted.

Part C Diversity Monitoring: is an optional section that asks questions about the characteristics of the person completing the form including sex, age, ethnicity and disability. This section only needs to be filled in once. Answering these questions allows the City Council to monitor responses from different groups and understand their views.

After this Pre-Submission consultation by the City Council, further submissions may only be made if invited by the Planning Inspector, based on the matters and issues they identify for examination.